Penn State Hershey Medical Center

Penn State Hershey Medical Center

The College of Engineering’s course EDSGN 548/IE 548 Interaction Design provides graduate students with an integrative perspective on the types of human-centered design techniques that can be used to analyze existing consumer products and develop innovative solutions.

WITF’s Transforming Health will present “Caring for Mom & Dad,” a resource event for caregivers from 9 a.m. to noon Nov. 7 at the WITF Public Media Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Penn State Hershey Medical Center is a sponsor of this event.

Penn State’s Dickinson Law students hosted pediatric medicine residents from Penn State Hershey Medical Center on Oct. 20 as part of the “Treating Medical Errors: A Medical-Legal Colloquium” in the Apfelbaum Family Courtroom and Auditorium on the Dickinson Law campus. Together, six law students and seven pediatric medicine residents presented a medical malpractice trial with pediatricians serving as witnesses in the case and consultants to their respective legal teams, and community residents participating as jurors.

When Michael Hoover learned that his father, Greg, was unable to leave the intensive care unit at Penn State Hershey Medical Center to attend Michael’s wedding, he and his fiancée decided to bring the wedding to his father.

With a career in retrovirology research, a passion for education, and a 24-year history at Penn State Hershey, Dr. Leslie Parent brings a strong skillset to her new position as vice dean for research and graduate education.

Penn State Hershey Medical Center will host CLIMB -- Children's Lives Include Moments of Bravery -- a free program designed to help children cope when someone they love has cancer by encouraging discussion and creativity.

The spread of cancer cells may be slowed by targeting the protein km23-1, according to researchers at Penn State College of Medicine.

A motor protein that transports cargo within the cell, km23-1 is also involved in the movement or migration of cells. Migration is necessary for cancer to spread, so understanding this cell movement is important for development of better cancer treatments.

Penn State Hershey's Director of Facilities Terry Achey will retire at the end of December after 13 years in that role and 34 years with Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine. Marvin Smith, a 27-year U.S. Air Force veteran and civil engineer, will replace Achey as facilities director, effective Jan. 2.

Penn State University Dickinson School of Law will host a panel discussion "Responding to Child Sexual Abuse: Legal, Medical and Ethical Perspectives" from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 24, in the auditorium of Lewis Katz Building on the University Park campus of Penn State and be simulcast to the auditorium of Lewis Katz Hall, Carlisle, Pa. The event also will be available via webcast -- a link will be available at http://law.psu.edu/events/child_abuse on the day of the event.

While incidents of melanoma continue to increase despite the use of sunscreen and skin screenings, a topical compound called ISC-4 may prevent melanoma lesion formation, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

A motor regulatory protein can block human ovarian tumor growth, leading to eventual cancer cell death and possible new therapies to treat the disease, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

A gene thought to be associated with cancer development can be a tumor suppressor gene in mice, researchers have discovered. Understanding which genes are involved in spreading cancer could lead to future therapies. "For cancer to spread, some genes are activated, while others that would prevent cancer growth are prevented from doing their jobs. The cancer research community has thought that the gene p120, falls into the latter category," said Douglas Stairs, assistant professor of pathology, who completed this research at University of Pennsylvania and is now at Penn State College of Medicine. "In this research, the loss of the p120 gene led to the development of cancer."

Penn State College of Medicine is offering a new integrated biomedical sciences graduate degree program with a unique focus on basic and translational research in the areas of human health, disease, and therapeutics. The Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program is accepting applications from students for fall 2011. This graduate program offers students an education leading to the doctoral degree.